Re:Felix: A compiled (to C++) scripting language
by stewbrew on Sunday July 10, 2016 @02:07PM
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Felix has looked interesting for I cannot remember how many decades. How many people actually use it?
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Re:Felix: A compiled (to C++) scripting language
by hellofunk on Sunday July 10, 2016 @02:37PM
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You're right, I thought this was a new language. The repo history goes back at least as far as 2001. I'm struggling to see the point to this language; what does it offer over C++ directly?
Re:Felix: A compiled (to C++) scripting language
by spraak on Sunday July 10, 2016 @05:27PM
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Or even Go
Re:Felix: A compiled (to C++) scripting language
by spriggan3 on Sunday July 10, 2016 @06:46PM
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> Or even Go
lol. Felix has Sum types, meta types, pattern matching, algebric types, unions , sets, records, channels ... Go has what? a rigid type system and channels ...
Re:Felix: A compiled (to C++) scripting language
by spraak on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @05:04AM
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I don't mean better in terms of features but rather the get shit done this language has a community and active development kind of thing.
Re:Felix: A compiled (to C++) scripting language
by spraak on Sunday July 10, 2016 @07:25PM
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Why am I unable to downvote? yet others seem to have the ability to downvote my comments
Re:Felix: A compiled (to C++) scripting language
by ramchip on Sunday July 10, 2016 @07:57PM
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There's a minimum karma required to be able to downvote.
Re:Felix: A compiled (to C++) scripting language
by spraak on Monday July 11, 2016 @01:40AM
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Thanks for explaining